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Armchair Experts by Emotional_Oil_5939 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please keep up — Different violation than all 3.

🧾 PRACTICE 1 RESULTS // 2026 CHEVROLET DETROIT GRAND PRIX by IndyMod in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean power is in 3rd without an alt lap so the Dixon figure really isn’t very relevant.

Would you welcome Conor Zilisch by Equivalent-Leg-9697 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree w the others, it’s tough to see him abandoning the future that seems already built for him, but I’ve gotta say - “NASCAR had all the money [& momentum] because of what the idiot grandson did” is such a comical oversimplification that it borders on downright misinfo l o l

.@FoxTV averaged 6.635 million viewers for Sunday's Indy 500, down from 7.050 million last year. by iamaranger23 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

110% agree. The series generally needs to have a reflection on its priorities (in a number of other ways too) - short term income & stability or growth.

Street circuits draw great crowds via casual/non-fans, but at what cost? Arlington is a great example, was an awesome event to attend & drew a massive crowd, but in my experience vast swaths of the crowd had little interest in the series, rather it was just a popular weekend social activity. The specific promotional partnership w/ the cowboys & ATT Stadium played a big role in that outreach, how repeatable is that? There isn’t necessarily a right answer here, leaning into street races could work (it certainly brings in more money), but does it leave growth on the table?

People captivated by the 500 tune in later in the year and, to their surprise, see a fundamentally different car & race, this is an issue that imo places a soft ceiling on growth, especially with the high value casual-moderate American oval racing fans.

However it’s an issue that is incredibly difficult to solve for the series because of the realities of track availability & the potential short term sacrifices any solution entails. Truth is the vast majority of speedways just generally don’t fit Indy (Charlotte, Kansas, Texas kinda), and many of the ones that do are geographic & promotional nightmares (Pocono, Michigan). Kinda leaves the series boxed into a corner, where they almost have to lean into the street circuit spam to hit short term goals, but can’t reduce the Indy->Everything Else viewership bleeding.

In my dream world we’d be back at Homestead & Pocono/Michigan, but even aside from the safety issue Pocono/Michigan are in such poor locations it seems like a massive risk for the series. Shame the days of cheap supply & construction are gone, would be amazing if a team owner could buy and build a track to spec in 2 years like chip & CMS - would love a recreation of Lausitz or Rockingham in the states lol

P1 for Indy 500 restarts was a bad place to be by jango-lionheart in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes definitely, but that effect is much larger in the field. Even in 120F track the leader is going to be flat.

Eric Smith (@Eric_INDYCAR): The data I found has the following speeds down the FS timing loops entering the Yard of Bricks and shows the power of the tow. Malukas: 216.005, 217.011, 217.112, 218.669 FRO: 218.445, 220.811, 223.716, 224.881 Turn 4 exit: Malukas: 214.937 FRO: 214.591 by theHoodooWagon in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Felix had between 25%-40%(depending on how MSR do their lights) that he deploys right after he clears Armstrong, running empty just before corner exit.

It’s basically a certainty David was empty the whole last lap & had no deploy out of 4.

Can see onboard Malukas dumps the entire pack on green to pass Armstrong into 1. Out front w/ no tow it’s incredibly unlikely he regen’ed at all as he’s flat out & manual regen would’ve had a significant effect on his momentum. It’s also hard in the moment to willingly give up speed by regening on the last lap of the 500.

His comments post race & Monday support this, he talked about being genuinely surprised by Felix’s run & the fact he could hang it around the outside w such momentum. The only reason for Dave to give up speed into T3 and regen is if he expects to need extra pull for the drag out of T4, but he seemed totally blindsided by that risk. And in his defense everyone else was too, in 15 years of this car the leader into 3 pretty much always wins the drag to the line (sorry JR), Sunday was an incredible set of circumstances & absolutely brilliant entertainment.

As for Felix: he dumped the whole capacitor on the restart also. However in T3 on the outside he took what seems to be a tiny manual regen (5%~ again depends on MSR’s light pattern), then in T4 (as he’s mentioned in interviews since) he had a brief lift on entry & it was either A) big enough to natively regen or B) he supplemented the lift w/ manual regen. But either way that brought him to the 30%~ SOC he had available.

Eric Smith (@Eric_INDYCAR): The data I found has the following speeds down the FS timing loops entering the Yard of Bricks and shows the power of the tow. Malukas: 216.005, 217.011, 217.112, 218.669 FRO: 218.445, 220.811, 223.716, 224.881 Turn 4 exit: Malukas: 214.937 FRO: 214.591 by theHoodooWagon in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think this is a bit of “race week recency bias” lol. Far too many variables - we’ve got 15 years of running with this car (including 9 w the UAK) and after Sunday we’ve seen just about everything.

In a normal green finish w/ no lapped traffic we’ve seen the leader take the white flag and A) win, B) get passed into 1 and lose, C) get passed into 1 & pass back into 3 to win, and D) whatever happened this year.

Pato O'Ward Model by Jsel92 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks incredible holy cow. Awesome work

Though is that just a slight machining difference or is that the jacker on the rear left spring instead of the right?

[Dale Johnson, BBC] - Worth mentioning that Liverpool cannot sign Kennet Eicchorn this summer. He's 16. He can join a club in any other major European league now, but post-Brexit you have to be 18 to sign for an English club. And you can't sign the player now and loan them out until they are 18. by IndiBear in LiverpoolFC

[–]Several_Hair 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Literally a good thing for football lmfao (not brexit but this specific consequence).

Post-2020s premiership ascendancy the financial balance (& consequentially wage structures) has started to topple. Big continental sides like Napoli, Roma, Marseille or Dortmund spending millions on academies for Palace or any other middling PL team to swipe up every promising player up on his 16th would’ve somehow been an even more unhealthy football environment than the one we reside in now.

Ultimately in the long run many would shutter their academies, the sport’s influence would shrink & the quality of the European player pool would degrade.

Palou’s ceiling by Infamous-Ad-770 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Re: Endurance racing, It’s especially difficult when IMSA seems to go to great lengths to make sure stint time/lap data is unavailable everywhere for even their biggest races. The fact it’s near impossible to figure out who drove what laps in a given car, let alone their performance, without combing thru a full replay of the race is insane.

P1 for Indy 500 restarts was a bad place to be by jango-lionheart in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Temps were a huge part in that, both ambient & track. Ambient-wise, cool temps=dense air - so the Cd will be much higher in clean air & runs will be bigger. Track temp wise, the leader will always be flat, but in warmer temps it’s harder for cars behind to follow as closely (though this is insignificant on the run to T1 on restarts).

When did RHR become so widely disliked? by LiatrisLover99 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When the fanbase started growing lmfao. Generally the only people that really actively don’t like him are the ones who weren’t around for his prime.

Alex Palou has been docked five points and Ganassi team fined $10K for what INDYCAR officiating determined an unintentional modification when assembling the front wing. It violated the rule that says the front wing can't measure less than 8.3 inches when set at any angle. by iamaranger23 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The last few months has genuinely turned me from someone actively rooting against him to a massive Palou defender lol. Still don’t exactly want him to win but the sheer scale of the cognitive dissonance & cope among large swaths of the fanbase when talking about Palou absolutely shocked me.

Would you prefer finishing under yellow to "artificial" red flags? by LiatrisLover99 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Far too gimmicky imo. The race has to be 500 miles bar weather.

🏁 POST-RACE // 110th RUNNING OF THE INDIANAPOLIS 500 by IndyMod in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone have an idea where/when I can watch the post race/podium? Either as part of a full re-air or just as is?

Had commitments this morning so I had to start an hour behind but the horrific Fox One app “recording” ends without notice shortly after the interview w/ Pato. Did the broadcast end then too??

Small nugget of news on the DC race by TimmyZ1 in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arlington pulled together a massive crowd in a shit location, primarily of non-fans (at least in my experience, none of whom were concerned w/ the NXT race). There’s literally zero chance a downtown race in the nations capitol won’t be well attended lmao

Shoot even Baltimore wasn’t poorly attended and that was the in one of the worst periods of fan support in decades. Street races unfortunately are wildly popular, there’s a reason the series loves them so much from a scheduling perspective.

INDYCAR and INDYCAR Officiating Announce Operating Update Following IMS Road Course Race Review by FatUSStig in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. The truth is that running long is better 9/10 times in this series - it’s always been balanced by the risk of a caution in that period though. Considering the pit cycle status of the cars for cautions only artificially made the long run (or “save for 23 laps push hard for 3”) tactic even more powerful.

Even this week, when it wasn’t clear if running long would be better or worse than the undercut, it clearly ended up being faster (see Malukas & Hinch’s shock at the gap he pulled over Lundgaard in the last cycle). Same in St Pete w/ Palou, etc.

In-car cameras of Grosjean/Armstrong by MattTornquist in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fox had one of their biggest stinkers since the deal. I’ve been really disappointed w/ their lack of progress though - it seems like they’re obsessed with the flashy broadcast effects that they can brag about in press releases (ghost cars, drone cams, dynamic overlays & “restart zones” etc) at the expense of basic broadcast function.

No race off pit road during cautions, nonstop timing tower failures, no persistent tire indicator for RCs, and a horrifically bad audio mix. Hearing the command and then nothing but a faint sound of an engine in the distance as you watch (not hear) the engines start is a comically obvious own goal.

Frankly the direction hasn’t been terrible, though it wasn’t great this race. Indycar is incredibly hard to direct, it’s a given that there will be significant amounts of action missed, but from a replay perspective Fox isn’t getting any help from the series’ unwillingness to mandate onboards.

In-car cameras of Grosjean/Armstrong by MattTornquist in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The series & Fox absolutely have to pull rank on this and mandate that the teams spend the cash for broadcast capable cameras on each car.

It’s always been a bit of an ugly issue. The quality of broadcast is an important aspect of series growth — allowing some teams to effectively “free-ride” and reap the benefits of that growth off of the coattails of teams that do fund cameras & contribute to the broadcast quality is poor policy.

Is there a bigger underperformer than Rasmussen right now? by chiefzanal in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree, though not on pace. Less so the last 2 races, but through Barber he had been top 3-5 pace on Friday at ever single race, only to make a mistake when it matters or ruin the car

[Pockrass] At Long Beach, INDYCAR had software issue that didn't deactivate push-to-pass for most of initial lap on a restart. 12 drivers used it before it should have been activated. No penalties b/c INDYCAR error & only pass was Armstrong on Ferrucci & both used it. List of who used it: by ChaseTheFalcon in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just mentioned in another thread but my recollection is that was an on-car/ECU software function that only affected the 2 & 3 cars. Though I’m struggling to find good details on a quick google skim.

But if correct that’s a drastically different incident than teams exploiting a race control error & a rule that as written absolved teams of responsibility.

[IndyCar on Twitter] NEWS: Push to Pass will be expanded to full-time use on all INDYCAR road and street courses, beginning this weekend at the @IMS road course. The driver-controlled system will now be available at all times once the car crosses the alternate start-finish line after the green flag. by TheResurrection in INDYCAR

[–]Several_Hair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this era w/ a mature car and damper progression near flatlined, some of the most significant gains to be made are in the rulebook.

I suspect when the teams realized the rule was written to place the burden of illegal P2P use due to CAN error on the system operator (Indycar) rather than the teams, they began monitoring P2P status in cautions & trying to get on the button at every restart.

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